Working together across Cultures
On Thursday March 27th 2014, Itim international and the Project Management Association of Finland (PMAF) are
organizing a theme event workshop on the topic of “Working together across Cultures”.
The event will be held at the premises of the PMAF, Eteläranta 10, Helsinki, between 3:00pm and 6:00pm.
The event is aimed at:
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Employees who have worked outside their home country
Managers and employees who work in teams with foreign colleagues
Managers and employees who travel abroad extensively
Managers who have responsibility for foreign projects
The goal of the event is to provide participants with an initial insight into the role of culture in multicultural projects.
The event is free of charge for members of PMAF. There is a free cultural preference survey (value 9,90) available for
the first 80 people that sign up. The invitation for this survey will be send two weeks prior to the event.
Program:
14.30
Registration and coffee
15.00
Opening
15.15
What is culture?
15.45
Simulation
16.45
The six dimensions of national culture
17.30
Questions and Answers / Closure
Speaker Egbert Schram
Egbert Schram is a (Dutch) forester by education and an organizational
developer by profession. Close to 10 years of experience in stimulating
feedback cultures.
He is the CEO of FeedbackDialog (4 countries) and Managing director of
itim international and the Hofstede Centre (32 countries) and founder of
the International chapter at the Finnish HR federation Henry.
About Itim international
Itim was founded by Bob Waisfisz, with the assistance and endorsement from the “father of culture”, prof. dr. Geert
Hofstede, the most quoted European social scientist worldwide. We assist our customers on the three levels of
culture (Culture and personality, national culture and organizational culture) by guiding our clients to use the three
levels from a management perspective.
The guidance includes analyzing organizational cultures, consulting, training and coaching. To support these
practices, itim has developed a sizeable toolkit which includes organizational culture scans, personal cultural value
surveys, an online education package called “Cohesion by Diversity” and mobile applications to compare your own
cultural preferences to those of the countries you visit.
What sets itim international apart from its peers, is the ability to combine the organizational cultural insights with
national cultural tendencies, meaning any change intervention is tailored to what are locally accepted practices. This
sincerely increases the success rate and underlines itim´s statement that we assist our clients in going beyond
cultural awareness and enable our clients to use culture as a tool of management.
Itim currently has locations in 32 countries and its network consists of 80 associate partners, spread out over 61
license holders. The headquarters is based in Helsinki, Finland. The current Managing Director is Egbert Schram.
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